DR Congo: The WHO announced that the number of people infected with yellow fever has increased 38 percent in the last three weeks, reaching a total of 1,798 suspected cases. (Reuters)

Guinea: Sekouba Konate, who served as the country’s transitional president in 2010, avoided a sentence of three years in prison for smuggling tens of thousands of dollars into the US. (Reuters)

Morocco: The country is lobbying African leaders for their support to rejoin the African Union 32 years after it left in a disagreement over Western Sahara. (BBC)

AMERICAS

El Salvador: President Salvador Sanchez Ceren criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down an amnesty law that barred investigation and prosecution of perpetrators of atrocities committed during the 1980-1992 civil war. (Reuters)

Mexico: A forensic investigation was unable to determine whether the burnt remains found in a garbage dump belonged to 43 college students allegedly detained by police then surrendered to a criminal gang in Guerrero province in 2014. (AP)

Panama: It was announced that former dictator Manuel Noriega will be transferred from prison to a hospital on Monday in order to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor. (Reuters)

ASIA

Malaysia: The country’s transport minister announced that preliminary conclusions from the forensic investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the Ukraine-Russia border in 2014 could be received later this year. (Reuters)

Pakistan: Fashion model Qandeel Baloch was killed by her brother; she recently offended conservatives by posting pictures of herself with a prominent Muslim cleric and implying that he had not observed the fast during Ramadan. (AP)

Philippines: President Rodrigo Duterte met with a businessman he accused of being one of the country’s top drug lords and threatened to kill him. (AFP)

EUROPE

Croatia: President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic said that the country will hold a snap election on September 11; this announcement follows the fall of the government after a vote of no-confidence last month. (Reuters)

France: The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the truck attack in Nice; the group’s affiliated Amaq news agency said the attack “was carried out by one of the soldiers of the Islamic State,” because France is part of the anti-IS coalition. (WSJ)

Serbia: The country says it will deploy joint army and police patrols on the borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia to curb illegal entry of migrants and people smuggling. (AP)

MIDDLE EAST

Syria: Air raids on rebel-held districts of Aleppo killed 19 civilians, including four children. (AFP)